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I moved to Southall when I was 5 with my family, went to live at Cornwall Avenue and then went to Lady Margaret School, left there when I was 11 went to Dormers Wells, at 12 we moved to Trinity Road, I still went to Dormers Wells ...Read more

A memory of Southall in 1940 by Josiephine Reavell

I was born in 1938 in Needwood Street off Rochdale Road. My Mam and Dad were allocated a new flat in Kingsley Crescent when I was a year old so all my memories are of the 'flats'. I, along with my two sisters and one brother, ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1940 by Mavis Mc Grath

My mother and her mother were born in my great-grandparents' cottage at Hanworth Common. Richard and Blanche Craske they were. Well dear old Richard was really my step great grandad. The true one was Charles ...Read more

A memory of Aldborough in 1944 by Richard Whitten

As a 10 year old, I moved with my parents to 90 Middle Lane 1938, which is now demolished. I remember watching the firework displays at Alexandra Palace. I was evacuated to Cornwall in 1938 with Crouch End Junior ...Read more

A memory of Hornsey in 1940 by John Ansell

A Personal Recollection of growing up during the last days of the pedestrian era in rural England by Tom Thornton A Yokel's Tale My earliest recollection of my Thornton grandparents, Alice and Tom, dates back to my pre-school ...Read more

A memory of Owslebury in 1941 by Tom Thornton

I lived in Clarendon Road until 1954. Does anyone remember the V1 doodlebug that crashed in Whitenights Park, causing a huge crater? In those days we would spend a lot of time in Earley Woods at the back of the allotments at the ...Read more

A memory of Earley in 1940 by Lewis Shaw

My Birth Certificate shows I was born at Newgate Lockingate Luxulyan and as a child lived briefly at St. Blazey. My family came to Australia in 1949 on the SS Arawa and we now reside in Sydney. I returned to Cornwall ...Read more

A memory of St Blazey in 1943

I was born at 9 Frederick Street, in 1941, and my earliest memory is of flags, streamers and buntings strung across the street every time a soldier came home 'from the war'. I don't know why, but the Union Jack flag absolutely terrified ...Read more

A memory of Widnes in 1941 by Jackie Worrall

Sometime in the late 1940s my family moved from Upper Cwmtwrch to the Gurnos Council Estate in Lower Cwmtwrch and lived there for the next nine years. I have many memories of the place. The main source ...Read more

A memory of Lower Cwm-twrch in 1940 by David Lougher

We were living in Barry Island in south Wales, I was getting ready to take the 11 plus, one day when I came home from school my dad was waiting to tell me that we were on the move to Devon. We had spent four years on the Nells ...Read more

A memory of East Prawle in 1946 by Patricia Perring